Category: Open Threads

I’m going off to punch things now (don’t worry — it’s at the dojo), something I need as a way to jump-start my week.  If you have anything interesting to report, feel free to do so here.

Sorry to have vanished completely.  I got a migraine that knocked me off my feet.  I’m heading back to real life now (to the point where I’ve actually turned my computer on), but my brain is not functioning fully.  Of course, some might say that’s a good thing…. I’ll try

I’m upright, but my brain is still asleep.  Feel free to comment here while I gather my errant thoughts.

I’m embarrassed to admit this, but I have absolutely nothing to say about today’s East Coast earthquake, except that I’m glad no one was hurt.  I don’t see the quake as a portent from either God or Gaia.  It was just one of those things that happens. Do you have

I will be gone from dawn ’til dusk at a major youth sports event tomorrow.  Then on Sunday I leave for an extended trip.  I am frazzled.  My brain is fried.  I don’t know if I’ll post again before I leave — but I promise to write from my trip,

I’d hoped to blog today, and I still might, but I’m currently not that optimistic. Until later, here’s your open thread.

Gathering my thoughts.  Still working on aged mom issues.  Open thread.

I was going to write a gorgeous post about the Battle of Midway celebration.  Indeed, I was able to write the first two paragraphs, before my day went wildly off the tracks. Some of the activities were delightful (dim sum with my family and my wonderful in-laws, and a lengthy

I’m off to work out, which will either leech out what little energy I have left in me this morning or re-energize me.   As I work out, I’ll say a prayer for the people of Joplin, Missouri.

Youth activities will keep be busy for hours to come.  Until then, as we sit and contemplate the end of the world, please enjoy an Open Thread.

I’m heading off to the dojo to work out some of my anger at Obama.  Meanwhile, feel free to use this post as an Obama’s speech open thread.  (Or an anything else you want open thread.)

I’ll be gone tomorrow from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m., so blogging will be impossible.  I did want to leave you with some food for thought, because I’d be interested in your comments on the two passages I quote below, both from James Kaplan’s Frank: The Voice. The first quotation

Legal work is going to keep me busy this morning, as I have a filing deadline.  Before I open this open thread, though, I just have to bow down before jj, whose lovely listing of the inconsistencies in the Administration’s bin Laden stories got me more links than I can